Torah Manuscript Studio
Whether it is in a folder of recordings, a notebook in your own hand, a draft on your desk, an idea you have carried for years, or a sefer that has gone out of print, we bring it to the page, in your words.
מִי־יִתֵּן אֵפוֹ וְיִכָּתְבוּן מִלָּי, מִי־יִתֵּן בַּסֵּפֶר וְיֻחָקוּ
Iyov 19:23
"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!" Torah that is only spoken reaches those who were in the room. Written, it reaches everyone who was not.
Four ways in
I have shiurim
Years of shiurim on YouTube, TorahAnytime, WhatsApp or a hard drive, or the notes you taught them from. We find the book already inside them and build it in your voice. You teach; we write.
I have a manuscript
Before a publisher reads it, our panel does. Every source checked at the text, the register measured, and seven readers each telling you yes or not yet, and the one change that matters.
My manuscript is ready
A finished, approved manuscript made into a sefer: typesetting, cover, ISBN, print files to the press's own specification, and a place on the shelf.
I have a sefer
A sefer out of print, even with no file left: reset from a printed copy, a scan or a ksav yad, with a new cover, and back on sale.
And other beginnings
Notebooks, margin notes, a ksav yad of chiddushim or drashos. We read it into text line by line, show you every doubtful word beside its image, and prepare it as a sefer.
You know the sefer you want to write, and none of it is on paper yet. We set a process with you: an outline, the shiurim or conversations that will fill it, and chapters you review as they come.
A classical sefer set afresh with its commentaries around it, on a page laid out as the classical editions are, in clear square letters, prepared for a yeshiva, a chaburah or a course.
How we work
A sefer carries only the sources the rav himself cited. Nothing is added to his Torah, and nothing is put in his mouth.
Every pasuk, Gemara and Rishon is read in the source itself, never from a summary or from memory.
If the page says "four words", there are four words. A reader who knows no Torah can still count, so we count first.
The Complete Sefer
Built from your shiurim, your notes or your writing, in your voice.
Every source read at the text, then our Reader Panel.
You read and mark every chapter.
Set as a sefer, not a document.
Print files to the press's own specification.
On sale at Yampolsky's, or through another publisher, where we help you meet their requirements.
The manuscript is yours
We do not have to publish your sefer. Many rabbanim ask us only for the manuscript: finished, checked and ready, to take to the publisher of their choice or to print themselves. We will prepare it to that publisher's own submission standard.
If you would like us to carry it further, to typesetting, a cover, print and a place on the shelf, we do that too. Either way the rights to your Torah stay with you.
Our work
I can't believe these are my own words.A rav
I almost started crying reading this… Thank you for doing something that I always dreamed of.A maggid shiur
On the whole it is excellent. Wonderful work! Thank you for giving me a second wind.A maggid and author
A playlist, a folder of recordings, a notebook, a draft, an idea or a sefer. We will reply with a scope.
Write to us